Enclosed : conservation, cattle, and commerce in among the Q'eqchi' Maya lowlanders / Liza Grandia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grandia, Liza.

Series:

Culture, place, and nature.

Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kekchi Indians--Land tenure.

Kekchi Indians.

Kekchi Indians--Migrations.

Kekchi Indians--Economic conditions.

Culture and globalization--Guatemala.

Culture and globalization.

Free trade--Guatemala.

Free trade.

Guatemala--Economic policy.

Guatemala.

Guatemala--Economic conditions.

Guatemala--Ethnic relations.

Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (2004 August 5).

Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and southern Belize. Then, pushed deeper into the frontier by cattle ranchers, lowland Q'eqchi' found themselves in conflict with biodiversity conservationists who established protected areas across this region during the 1990s.The lowland, maize-growing Q'eqchi' of the 21st century face even more problems as they are swept into global markets through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the Puebla to Panama Plan (PPP). The waves of dispossession imposed upon them, driven by encroaching coffee plantations, cattle ranches, and protected areas, have unsettled these agrarian people. Enclosed describes how they have faced and survived their challenges and, in doing so, helps to explain what is happening in other contemporary enclosures of public "common" space.A Capell Family BookWatch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLvmg3mHE8

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Preface

Acknowledgments

Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography

Notes on Measurements

Maps

Introduction: Commons Past

1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History

2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migrationand Territorial Expansion

3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Petén Frontier

4. Speculating: The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform

5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalisms: Expanding Cattle Frontiers

6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA

Conclusion: Common Futures

Glossary

Acronyms

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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"A Capell Family book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295804170

0295804173

OCLC:

781634978